At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle futures were higher, with boxed beef up at midday, waiting for the week’s direct business. There was also ongoing position squaring ahead of this Friday’s USDA Cattle on Feed report and next Friday’s USDA Cattle Inventory update. February live was $.72 higher at $233.10 and April […]
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An economist says milk production is going up, but the replacement herd is shrinking. Danny Munch with the American Farm Bureau
A National Corn Growers Association board member says ethanol supporters can’t ease up on the push for permanent, year-round E15 sales.
The director of retail credit underwriting at Farm Credit Mid-America says producers have an opportunity to strengthen their financial position in 2026.
An agricultural engineering professor at Ohio State University says a new research program is showing the critical role farmers play in
An organic grain farmer says the sector is also being strained by the challenging ag economy. Fourth-generation farmer Mark Vollmar tells
U.S. ethanol production shot higher last week as winter weather eased, allowing full schedules to resume. The U.S. Energy Information Administration
A graduate student at the University of Illinois says ongoing research shows utilizing a cereal rye cover crop to supplement cattle
Cash dairy prices were steady-to-lower except for butter on Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was unchanged at $0.72. No sales were recorded. Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.05 at $1.3925. Six sales were recorded, ranging
From tractors and balers to cultivation equipment the focus is making farmers and ranchers more efficient. Cort Morris product manager with
